GNOME 2.4 in Cambridge

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Fri Aug 8 19:26:40 UTC 2003


On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:24:35PM -0600, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:56:37PM -0600, Chris Ricker wrote: 
> > > For those of us with NFS home dirs, is GNOME 2.4 supposed to work on two
> > > different machines at the same time off the same home dir? That, to me,
> > > would be the more useful objective....
> > 
> > It is if you enable TCP CORBA connections between the two machines, 
> > or somewhat more dangerously if you use GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS=1
> 
> How does one do these? I assume the second is an env variable, but what's 
> the first? And what's more dangerous about the second?
> 

See www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/, conceivably the GNOME admin 
guide at www.gnome.org/learn/ has something on it too.

For dangerousness see my reply to Seth just now.

Havoc





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